At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

The hunt for worlds beyond our solar system has shifted from counting planets to confronting extremes that strain basic ...

On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring ...

CNN — For the first time, a super-telescope has revealed a complex atmosphere on an exoplanet, according to a new study. The observation revealed a planet-wide storm where clouds of iron and silicates ...

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying about 40 payloads, including NASA's Pandora exoplanet satellite, launched from California's ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

Combining two kinds of quantum computing devices could be just the trick for taking better images of faint, faraway ...

Could a recently discovered "super-Earth" have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life? The new exoplanet is situated "fairly close to us" -- only 137 light-years away -- and orbits ...

How many exoplanets orbit two stars? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of scientists announced the discovery of a new exoplanet ...

Detecting exoplanets is one thing, but imaging them is another thing entirely. Astronomers can detect them by the way they block their star's light and by the way they make their stars wobble, and ...